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This Weekend at LACMA: Godard and Truffaut, Free Concerts, Levitated Mass Family Activities, Augmented Reality, and More

Starting tonight, Film Independent brings us “French Film Fridays” throughout July. The series kicks off with two classics: Godard’s Contemptand Truffaut’s MississippiMermaid. Essential viewings for your film education!

On the other side of campus this evening, saxophonist Rickey Woodard, who has played with Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and more, brings his sextet to LACMA for our free jazz concert.

That’s the first of three free concerts this weekend. Saturday afternoon, take a stroll through Michael Heizer’s Levitated Mass and then keep strolling right into Hancock Park for Latin Sounds—this weekend featuring twelve-piece salsa big band Orquesta Tabaco y Ron, starting at 5pm. Then, on Sunday, see Trio Latitude 41 perform compositions by Schubert and Tchaikovsky in the Bing Theater during Sundays Live.

Inspired by the Russian Avant-Garde show and the architecture of LACMA's plaza, artists Will Pappenheimer and John Craig Freeman created a special project called Project-o-Rator. The project, which is location-based and can only be experienced at LACMA, transforms the in-between spaces of the museum's campus using augmented reality. If you have an Android or iPhone with you while at the museum this weekend, visit the Project-o-Rator site or use the QR code below to install the free Layar Augmented Reality Browser, which will launch the project. If you have an iPad, download Layar and search for "LACMA". Once you've done this, viewing the museum campus through your camera will reveal an augmented reality layer that introduces 3-D virtual objects on your screen. Find out more.

Happy 86th birthday to Frank Gehry! What would the world be without the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, or so many other groundbreaking buildings? We look forward to celebrating Gehry’s impact with a retrospective opening September 13: http://bit.ly/LACMAgehry